THE ACT FOR BETTER GOVERNMENT OF INDIA ,1858

THE ACT FOR BETTER GOVERNMENT OF INDIA ,1858

The act revolt had exposed the company's limitations in administering under a complex situation.Till then,there had not been much accountability. The 1858 act sought to rectify this anomaly-- 

• India was to be governed by and in the name of the Crown   a secretary of state and a council of 15. The initiative and the final decision was to be with the secretary of state and the council was to be just advisory in nature.(Thus , the dual system introduced by the pitt's India Act came to an end.
• Governor-general become the Viceroy (His prestige,if not authority, increased ) 

The assumption of power by the crown was one of formality rather than substance.It gave a decent burial to an already dead horse-the company's administration.